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The Center for Early Education and Care at UMass Amherst recently renewed its accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals.

As part of Open Education Week 2016, the scholarly communication office and the W. E. B. Du Bois Library will host Nicole Finkbeiner, associate director of institutional relations for OpenStax, for an informal presentation and discussion on Wednesday, March 9 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 2601 of the...

A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst seniors won the third annual Student Iron Chef Competition held Feb. 19 at the University of Ottawa in Canada to give UMass Amherst its second victory in three years.

From Vietnam to America: A Musical Odyssey, with multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ on the Vietnamese zither known as the Dan Tranh, will be in Bowker Auditorium on Friday, March 4 at 8 p.m.
During her visit to the University, Vân-Ánh Võ will conduct...

With his family and police and campus officials looking on, Tyrone A. Parham was formally sworn in Feb. 12 by Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy as 10th chief of the University of Massachusetts Police Department.
Parham was joined in the ceremony by his wife Precious, who pinned the badge on his...

UMass Summer Programs invites motivated high school students interested in hands-on learning experiences to apply to Summer Pre-College. With more than a dozen programs running from June 26 through August 6, children can earn college credit and gain valuable experience for their future college...

Astronomy student Patrick Drew won top prize at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Fla. for his poster, “Are MWC349 A and B a Physical Binary?”
Drew received the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, which “recognizes exemplary...